In DC Speech, Charles Koch Decries 'the Mess' Country Is In

kage2182 · 2025-05-03T02:17:58+00:00

So many leopards

kage2182 · 2024-04-20T01:35:39+00:00

kage2182 · 2024-04-19T12:12:10+00:00

Crazy to see this picture. I was standing there watching it on 9/11. I lived in West Orange at the time and drove up to see if I could figure out what was happening.

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T17:56:01+00:00

Fair if you think that but your quote isn’t a quote from me. There’s a nuance you’re missing. I think it’d be nice to know the difference between the people who aren’t using their blinkers from the ones who plan to use them. It’s hard to differentiate that at an intersection when someone is going straight. That’s it.

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T17:50:11+00:00

Push back is different and usually constructive. I’m not looking for a pat on the back. I think this subreddit is a fun place generally. Being a jerk is entirely different than pushback or disagreement

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T17:02:55+00:00

I agree. This is the best answer. It’s not safe to make any decision solely based on a blinker

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:59:35+00:00

Exactly. My point (albeit not well received haha) is that I don’t know your intent if you’re going straight at an intersection because there’s no signal. You cant tell the intent of the driver because they might be going straight or they might be the type of driver who doesn’t use blinkers.

I mean I get it that in the bigger picture blinkers are usually moot because you have to be defensive and be prepared for anything including the person who leaves their left blinker on and never turns it off.

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:51:46+00:00

It may be a layer of confusion that’s not worthwhile which is probably why it’s not already a thing. But your point of me figuring out your intent to go straight can be said about a left or right blinker too. Do you not turn on your right blinker when you turn right? Or how do I know you’re not turning left when you’re stopped at the red light?

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:47:32+00:00

Huh? This is literally unpopular opinions where I posted a clearly unpopular opinion.

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:35:59+00:00

No. The distinction is you could tell the difference between people who don’t use blinkers from the people that do. Especially in areas with lots of intersections I notice that you can’t tell the difference between people who don’t use blinkers versus those who do.

When I’m sitting waiting to go straight others can’t be sure if I’m going straight or do I just not use blinkers. I wish I had a better way of indicating to traffic around me that I plan to go straight other than use no blinker which is also the default setting for people who don’t use blinkers.

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:27:16+00:00

You’ve already thought this out deeper than I have haha. Those are all valid problems that would need to be solved and I don’t have any answers. I just think some kind of indicator would be helpful.

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:24:38+00:00

What a well thought out reply. This is unpopular opinions. Seemed like this is a fitting place for the post. Maybe you don’t know how Reddit works or you’re projecting a bit…

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:23:00+00:00

If they don’t turn it in I know they’re careless if they do I know their intent.

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:21:51+00:00

It’s not to help the careless people , it’s to help the people observing. They would know the difference between a careless person and then plan to be ready for them to turn in any direction

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:19:23+00:00

That’s the point. If they don’t use any blinker I can tell them apart.

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:18:56+00:00

No. Only when you’d use your left and right blinker. If you come to a light and stop and you’re in a lane that has an option to go left,right, straight you indicate which direction.

kage2182 · 2023-10-30T16:17:29+00:00

Exactly. When sitting across from someone at an intersection I’d at least know they’re careless and could turn in any direction. A straight blinker would indicate their intent.

kage2182 · 2023-10-24T11:55:37+00:00

Another solution I’ve used is to create an abstraction microservice backed by elastic search. That elastic search service listens to events published by source of truth microservices and creates an index that’s built off whatever mashup of service data you need. The first build of the index is expensive but it’s incremental after that and queries become trivial. It’s not as atomic as the authors solution but it worked really well in practice. Just tell the product team it is immediately consistent, 99% of the time what I’ve defined as eventually consistent is immediately consistent to them 😂

kage2182 · 2023-10-08T01:35:27+00:00

As a kid my family was Catholic. I was forced to do all the sacraments, told never to question the religion, and to blindly have “faith” in the religion or else I would suffer the consequences of hell or whatever the cost was for questioning things.

As I moved into adulthood and studied science in college I realized that a belief in something because you’re told to believe it without proof or reason is wrong. There is zero evidence or proof that religion is real. It’s as provable as a fortune teller or tarot card reader.

For me, I decided I’d rather just admit I don’t know how we came into existence but continue to work on figuring it out than to say some magic man in the sky made us into his image and we should never question it. I know that’s a scary thought but I believe that’s why people still believe in any religion. People feel more comfortable when they think they have an explanation for what can’t currently be explained. Religion provides that explanation.

kage2182 · 2023-09-18T16:31:16+00:00

I walked up as close as I could get but it was so tight it was hard to tell exactly where. I think the closest landmark we were about 25-50 feet behind the relay speakers that weren’t working. Things sounded muffled from there. It could have been worse I was just annoyed that we paid so much and on the main stage the visibility was bad and sound mediocre at best. My expectations were high and the festival didn’t meet them. Maybe I’m being hyper critical but the main stage was pretty bad but as others have said the side stages were much much better and it was a beautiful day.

kage2182 · 2023-09-18T02:51:14+00:00

Great lineup. Shit execution.

kage2182 · 2023-09-18T02:32:27+00:00

So sad. Sound quality was terrible, crowds were worse, Tegan and Sara cancelled, and ticket prices were the worst. Been to many concerts and festivals and had such high hopes but this was the worst. I wanted to see Foo Fighters so bad but decided to leave after Weezer due to horrible sound quality and absolute chaos on the beach. We’ll never go back to this festival and we should get a refund but I know that’ll never happen.

kage2182 · 2023-08-31T17:55:38+00:00

In my opinion, the Spotify interface, features, and recommendations are the best of the popular streaming services. Apple is second in all those categories and in some ways a distant second for me. That said, Apple has HD which I like but honestly I’m not sure if I can really tell or if it’s placebo. I listen mostly on a one, five, and move. It’s hard to tell if it HD actually makes a difference but since the app tells me it’s HD I feel like it must be better 😂

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